SUMMER FRIDAYS DEP'T.: On the road
Indignity Vol. 4, No. 151
Previously in Indignity
FOOD AND DRINK DEP'T.
Tom Scocca
Tea Time at the Gyro Hut, Lake George Village
Long ago, through trial and error, I worked out a guiding principle for life: when dealing with an unfamiliar restaurant, look for the unexpected items. Everyone is going to offer things like chicken tikka masala or beef with broccoli or spaghetti and meatballs, out of obligation. But nobody puts lamb nihari or prawns with salted egg yolk or malloreddus with sausage on the menu unless they mean it—unless that's what the people who run the restaurant want to be cooking. Someone in Lake George Village had gone out of their way to put the chapli kebab up there with the pizza and burgers and chicken and lamb. Gyro Hut was trying to tell me something. I ordered the chapli kebab.
THE WORST THING WE READ™
Tom Scocca
Can Donald Trump Still Win a Race to the Bottom? [Paywalled]
Rather than straightfacedly, and untenably, arguing to the readers of the New York Times that Donald Trump is a person of higher character than Kamala Harris, Lowry was aiming to shake their confidence in the rousing beginnings of the Harris campaign. His message was that Trump could successfully raise doubts about Harris—that it was still possible to scare voters away from her, or at least discourage them, by making the election a contest about something he called "character," which was not to be confused with what people usually mean when they talk about character:
ASK THE SOPHIST
Tom Scocca
Welcome to the Ask The Sophist Archive!
Look at all these problems people have had—which turned out, on inspection, not to be problems at all! Wouldn't you like to have your own problem resolved so neatly? Send your questions to Ask The Sophist at indignity@indignity.net.
COLUMN DEP'T.
JOE MACLEOD
MR WRONG: School in August Is a Crime
I weep for The Children, and their Educators. It’s warm out, it’s fucking Summer for fuck’s sake, how can you expect kids to concentrate when it’s Summer?
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
Click on this box to find the Indignity Morning Podcast archive.
TOM SCOCCA
THOUGHT DEP’T.
Do you have a thought? Send it to indignity@indignity.net.
VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS DEP'T.
Paradise Golf & Arcade, Kill Devil Hills, NC
More consciousness at Instagram.
SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from The Swedish, French, American Cook Book, by Mrs. Maria Mathilda Ericsson Hammond, published in 1918, and now in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
Chicken Sandwiches (Sandwiches au Poulet) à la Européenne
Cook chicken; leave in the juice until cold, then slice very thin. Butter thin slices of bread; put on top the slices of chicken, sprinkle with pepper and salt. Put another slice of buttered bread on the top; press down; trim the crust off all around; cut in oblong shape and arrange on paper doily. [Lamb sandwiches can be made in the same way.]
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net.
MARKETING DEP'T.
Supplies are really and truly running low of the second printing of 19 FOLK TALES, still available for gift-giving and personal perusal! Sit in the crushing heat with a breezy collection of stories, each of which is concise enough to read before the thunderstorms start.
LESS THAN 5 COPIES LEFT: HMM WEEKLY MINI-ZINE, Subject: GAME SHOW, Joe MacLeod’s account of his Total Experience of a Journey Into Television, expanded from the original published account found here at Hmm Daily. The special MINI ZINE features other viewpoints related to an appearance on, at, and inside the teevee game show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, and is available for purchase at SHOPULA.
